||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A solid reference for avoiding process errors|By Steve Vigus|Good scientific reference for understanding how accidents occur and how they can be avoided. This is applicable to lots of industries, not only from a safety perspective, but to reduce errors in other aspects of business and operations as well. Not the easiest read due to the amount of information that it contains bu|About the Author|James Reason is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Manchester, England. He is consultant to numerous organizations throughout the world, sought after as a keynote speaker at international conferences and author of several ren
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging consequences are limited to relatively few people or assets. Although they share some common causal factors, they mostly have quite different causal path...
